Ian Bremmer

AI position

Focused on x-risk

Recurring GZERO World segments/episodes dedicated to AI existential risk with its leading voices.

Why influential

Translates specialist research into narratives and recommendations consumed by policymakers, journalists, donors and institutional leaders. Primary policy lanes: geopolitics; technology; business risk; democracy.

Who pays attention

Diplomats, global executives, intelligence professionals, investors, policy staff and international journalists

Work samples

• OpenAI whistleblower Daniel Kokotajlo on superintelligence and existential risk of AI

  Jan 1, 2025 · podcast

  Bremmer interviews Kokotajlo (AI 2027 lead author) on superintelligence timelines and existential risk; aired alongside PBS segment 'The Race to Superintelligence'.

• Artificial intelligence new rules: Ian Bremmer and Mustafa Suleyman explain the AI power paradox

  Sep 1, 2023 · podcast

  Bremmer and Suleyman (then Inflection AI CEO) discuss their co-authored Foreign Affairs piece and five principles for AI governance.

• The Dangers of Unchecked AI (with Tristan Harris)

  Jan 1, 2025 · broadcast

  Tristan Harris (Center for Humane Technology) joins Bremmer to discuss AI safety failures and recursive self-improvement risk.

• Getting to know generative AI with Gary Marcus

  Sep 8, 2023 · podcast

  Companion podcast to PBS episode 'Should We Be Worried About AI?'

• Yoshua Bengio: AI is moving faster than our ability to govern it

  Jul 15, 2026 · video

  GZERO Global Stage conversation with Bengio at AI for Good Summit; on-record interviewer not explicitly named on the page but produced under Bremmer's GZERO World/Global Stage banner.

AI-world contacts

• Geoffrey Hinton — Professor emeritus, Nobel laureate, University of Toronto

  • Hosted / interviewedsource · interview · Dec 6, 2025 — The human cost of AI, with Geoffrey Hinton — Hosted discussion of mass unemployment, inequality, autonomous weapons, disinformation, and loss of control.

• Yoshua Bengio — Professor, Turing laureate, Mila / UdeM

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified · Oct 1, 2024 — GZERO-published video segment (hosted by Taylor Owen of Machines Like Us, syndicated on GZERO's site) covering Bengio's existential-risk warnings.

• Mustafa Suleyman — CEO, Microsoft AI (co-founded DeepMind, later Inflection), Microsoft AI

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — Co-authored Foreign Affairs piece with Bremmer and appeared in a dedicated GZERO World podcast episode discussing AI governance principles.

• Tristan Harris — Co-founder and executive director, Center for Humane Technology

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — Recurring GZERO World guest on AI risk and safety, including the 2025 episode 'The Dangers of Unchecked AI'.

• Eric Schmidt — Tech executive, AI policy figure, Former Google CEO / Schmidt Sciences

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — Referenced/featured in GZERO World's 2022 episode 'Changing the AI Conversation.'